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Opere di David Bradley

No Place to Hide (1948) 91 copie
Dartmouth (1982) 9 copie
Expert skiing (1960) 4 copie

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Bradley, David John
Data di nascita
1915-02-22
Data di morte
2008-01-07
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David Bradley, 92, Author, Antinuclear Advocate, Champion Skier and State Legislator, Is Dead
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Published: January 30, 2008
David Bradley, a writer, surgeon and antinuclear advocate whose best-selling first book, “No Place to Hide,” was an eyewitness account of the postwar atomic tests on Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, died on Jan. 7 in Norway, Me. He was 92. A former resident of Hanover, N.H., Dr. Bradley had lived in Maine in recent years.

Dr. Bradley’s family confirmed the death.

Published in 1948 by Little, Brown & Company, “No Place to Hide” was a journal of his time as an Army medical officer on Bikini in the summer of 1946. His job was to monitor radiation levels in the wake of the first two nuclear tests there. From 1946 to 1958, the United States conducted 23 such tests on Bikini.

Reviewing “No Place to Hide” in The New Yorker, E. B. White wrote: “Dr. Bradley’s is a peculiarly effective book, I think. It is casual, personal and written by a man who seems to have the mind and training of a scientist, the eyes and ears of a poet.”

Dr. Bradley was also, variously, a newspaper correspondent, a national skiing champion and successful ski-jump designer, an Olympic team manager and a New Hampshire state legislator.

David John Bradley was born on Feb. 22, 1915, in Chicago and was reared in Madison, Wis., where his father taught physiological chemistry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

In 1938, he earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth, where he competed in skiing. He was the 1938 United States champion in the Nordic combined event, which comprises cross-country skiing and ski jumping. He was named to the 1940 Olympic ski team, though the games were canceled because of the war in Europe.

After graduating from Dartmouth, Dr. Bradley studied English and history at Cambridge University before traveling to Finland, where he covered the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40 for The Wisconsin State Journal and other Midwestern newspapers. He earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1944 and later entered the Army.

In 1960, he returned to Finland, where he spent two years teaching American literature at the University of Helsinki. His book about Finland, “Lion Among Roses,” was published in 1965.

A designer or renovator of more than 60 ski-jumping hills throughout the Northeast, Dr. Bradley was the manager of the United States Nordic ski team at the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. He was inducted into the United States National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1985.

From 1955 to 1959 and from 1973 to 1975, Dr. Bradley, a Democrat, served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Dr. Bradley’s first marriage, to Elisabeth Bancroft McLane, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, the former Sally Tucker Smart; six children from his first marriage, Kim Emmons of Norway, Me.; Darby Bradley, of Calais, Vt.; Wendy Morgan of Peacham, Vt.; Ben, of Thetford, Vt.; Bronwen Ballou of Hanover, N.H.; and Steven, of Peacham; a stepson, Kevin Smart of Norway, Me.; two brothers, Richard, of Colorado Springs, and William, of Boulder, Colo.; 11 grandchildren; and 6 great-grandchildren.

His other books include “Expert Skiing,” with Ralph Miller and Allison Merrill (1960); and “Robert Frost: A Tribute to the Source” (1979), with photographs by Dewitt Jones.

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More than the "what an atomic bomb can do", it is interesting all the logistics before and after, and how ill-prepared we were for what was the power that we unleashed.

Probably, worth reading with other books in my library on atomic bomb and its cultural and social side effects.

Such as:
- "Destroying the village: Eisenhower and thermonuclear war"
- "L'atomica europea. I progetti della guerra fredda, il ruolo dell'Italia, le domande del futuro".

And a a couple of books worth considering when talking about deterrence:
- "Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George Bush"
- "The Godfather doctrine : a foreign policy parable"
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